AI Agents Job Trends in the UK excluding London

AI Agents (Agentic AI)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term AI Agents in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited AI Agents over the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 487 514 -
Rank change year-on-year +27 - -
Permanent jobs citing AI Agents 50 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.094% 0.004% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.33% 0.010% -
Number of salaries quoted 40 1 0
10th Percentile £54,750 - -
25th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - -
75th Percentile £104,063 £100,000 -
90th Percentile £122,750 - -
UK median annual salary £90,000 £100,000 -
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

AI Agents falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 15,190 10,141 20,434
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.53% 36.01% 34.78%
Number of salaries quoted 7,227 5,158 14,173
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £56,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.83% +9.09% -15.38%

AI Agents
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AI Agents relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

AI Agents job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

AI Agents
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AI Agents.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AI Agents

AI Agents
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing AI Agents in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 March 2026.

Salary histogram for AI Agents in the UK excluding London

AI Agents
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AI Agents within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England - 28 £82,500 - 26
North West - 17 £80,000 - 10
Yorkshire - 11 £97,500 - 15
South West - 6 £44,000 - 9
South East - 5 £90,000 - 50
Midlands -13 4 £59,527 -33.86% 5
Scotland - 4 £85,000 - 1
West Midlands +7 3 £59,527 -33.86% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £66,250 -
East of England - 1 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 £60,000 - 3
AI Agents
UK

AI Agents
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (8.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (4.00%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 2 (4.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (26.00%) AWS
1 13 (26.00%) Azure
1 13 (26.00%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (24.00%) SaaS
3 9 (18.00%) Power Platform
4 6 (12.00%) Copilot Studio
4 6 (12.00%) Microsoft Copilot
5 5 (10.00%) Amazon Bedrock
6 4 (8.00%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (8.00%) GCP
7 3 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (6.00%) Power Automate
8 2 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (4.00%) GitHub
8 2 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (4.00%) IaaS
8 2 (4.00%) PaaS
8 2 (4.00%) PowerApps
9 1 (2.00%) Google Workspace
9 1 (2.00%) Lucidchart
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.00%) Neo4j
1 2 (4.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.00%) Big Data
2 1 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.00%) Pinecone
2 1 (2.00%) Redis
2 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.00%) Tableau
2 1 (2.00%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 2 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 11 (22.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (20.00%) Finance
3 8 (16.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (16.00%) Public Sector
4 6 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (10.00%) Law
6 4 (8.00%) Legal
6 4 (8.00%) Manufacturing
6 4 (8.00%) Marketing
7 3 (6.00%) Banking
8 2 (4.00%) Local Government
8 2 (4.00%) Telecoms
9 1 (2.00%) Advertising
9 1 (2.00%) Financial Institution
9 1 (2.00%) Investment Banking
9 1 (2.00%) Private Banking
9 1 (2.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (22.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 9 (18.00%) Lead
3 8 (16.00%) Developer
3 8 (16.00%) Senior
4 7 (14.00%) Architect
4 7 (14.00%) Software Engineer
5 6 (12.00%) Lead Developer
5 6 (12.00%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (10.00%) AWS Architect
6 5 (10.00%) AWS Solution Architect
7 4 (8.00%) Product Manager
8 3 (6.00%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Consultant
8 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Consultant
9 2 (4.00%) Analyst
9 2 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (4.00%) Business Analyst
9 2 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (4.00%) Head of Technology
9 2 (4.00%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.00%) .NET
2 6 (12.00%) LangChain
2 6 (12.00%) LangGraph
3 5 (10.00%) A2A Protocol
4 3 (6.00%) FastAPI
4 3 (6.00%) React
5 2 (4.00%) .NET Core
5 2 (4.00%) Django
5 2 (4.00%) Model Context Protocol
5 2 (4.00%) Next.js
5 2 (4.00%) NumPy
5 2 (4.00%) PyTorch
5 2 (4.00%) RESTful
5 2 (4.00%) scikit-learn
5 2 (4.00%) TensorFlow
6 1 (2.00%) ASP.NET
6 1 (2.00%) CrewAI
6 1 (2.00%) JSON
6 1 (2.00%) LlamaIndex
6 1 (2.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (4.00%) Autonomous Agent
2 2 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (4.00%) Low-Code
2 2 (4.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.00%) CMDB
3 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.00%) IoT
3 1 (2.00%) Life Science
3 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.00%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.00%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (98.00%) AI
2 23 (46.00%) Machine Learning
3 16 (32.00%) LLM
4 12 (24.00%) Generative AI
4 12 (24.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 11 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 10 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 9 (18.00%) Agile
7 9 (18.00%) CI/CD
7 9 (18.00%) DevOps
7 9 (18.00%) Mentoring
8 7 (14.00%) Analytics
8 7 (14.00%) Backlog Refinement
8 7 (14.00%) Decision-Making
8 7 (14.00%) Sprint Planning
9 6 (12.00%) Collaborative Working
9 6 (12.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (12.00%) Technical Leadership
9 6 (12.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (26.00%) Python
2 5 (10.00%) C#
2 5 (10.00%) TypeScript
3 4 (8.00%) SQL
4 2 (4.00%) C++
4 2 (4.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.00%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (20.00%) Degree
2 4 (8.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.00%) Master's Degree
3 2 (4.00%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.00%) CBAP
4 1 (2.00%) PMP
4 1 (2.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (2.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.00%) Accessibility
1 6 (12.00%) QA
2 2 (4.00%) GDPR
3 1 (2.00%) GRC
3 1 (2.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (8.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (6.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.00%) Terraform
3 1 (2.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (28.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.00%) OpenAI
3 4 (8.00%) Salesforce
4 3 (6.00%) Foundry
4 3 (6.00%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.00%) Google
5 2 (4.00%) Planon
6 1 (2.00%) Databricks
6 1 (2.00%) HubSpot
6 1 (2.00%) Oracle